C and S toke on the beach

It's a form of compressed tobacco - strawberry flavored in this case. The hookah is called a shisha - up till a few years ago it was only middle easterners who smoked them, but there are trendy clubs nowadays. S started talking to me about the loss of the library of Alexandria, c... hmmm... 300 A.D? which was the lede used by an NPR story talking about how Google wants to be the new library of Alexandria that I heard on the radio about 20 minutes later. Synchronicity? Naaahhh..... common theme and I listen to the news all the time.

C's tat reads "Pursue your dreams to the stars" in English.

Cohoes Falls

 

 Cohoes Falls,

In Upstate New York

Faux Teutonic Demonic

A carnival in Belleville - a lot of the funhouses I have seen seem to have come from Bavaria or Austria, where they take Carnaval seriously - this one obviously isn't but tries to be...

2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike, improvised Garbage dumps

2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike, improvised Garbage dumps

Lurid Cover

50 cents in 1963!

Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum)

I think the flowers it's drinking from are Dame's-Rockets. I think it looks more like a bumble bee. Batesian mimicry?